Effective strategies for multimodal transportation network

Abstract

In accordance with the enlarged functional structure of the multimodal transportation network designing methodology, the article describes the methods of the forming of the Area of effective strategies of the multimodal transportation network development. In this study, a multimodal transportation network is considered as a set of multimodal transportation corridors consisting of multimodal transportation hubs and transportation links of various modes of transport. The methods of system analysis, mathematical logic, mathematical modeling of processes and systems were used in the development of the methodology. To reduce the dimension of the problem used: decomposition of the multimodal transportation network shape; the principle of setting the initial conditions; technological relations that determine the sequence of activities in time, their conditionality in relation to each other and compatibility. The proposed method allows to form the area of effective strategies for changing the shape and capacity of multimodal transportation network for set of estimated cases. Estimated cases specify variants of required traffic volumes and estimated schemes of multimodal transportation network shape for different scenarios of socio-economic development of the country and its regions, taking into account the impact of external and internal factors on decision-making, generating uncertainty of initial information. The formed area of effective strategies is used to make the optimal design decision to change the shape and capacity of multimodal transportation network.